INTEREST. The behaviour and antics of chimpanzees. Titles (63). Chimpanzee (91). Cherry Kearton and chimp, chimp playing, smoking, drinking tea, swinging on branches (260), chimp chasing leopard and other animals (334), attacking people, ...
A party of African visitors arrive by car at the Tower of London, where a beefeater greets them and shows them around. After they have seen the sights, the car returns to collect them and the visitors depart. With musical accompaniment. ...
DOCUMENTARY. The life of British scientists stationed in Graham Islands in the Falkland Islands Dependencies.
Most of the film features the Birches and friends young and old at leisure on the beaches of Sussex bay on the Freetown peninsula in Sierra Leone. Some sequences demonstrate its beautiful setting; others also show native settlements ...
Various scenes in Sierra Leone. Aerial sequence along a jungle river with waterfalls shows us increasing western development nearing the coast. Views of pools by the river used to wash for diamonds; views of a market; views of steam ...
The rising standard of health of the native communities of East Africa brought about by improved methods of cattle farming.
The film was produced from Animal Husbandry (1948)
The story of an African boy born in a village in Northern Rhodesia that is revolutionised by the growth of the Copperbelt industry.
The commentator introduces the story over a map, with the title 'Northern Rhodesia 1902'. 'At the ...
The work of a cocoa farm in southern Nigeria. On a cocoa farm in southern Nigeria, ripened pods are cut from the trees and the beans extracted, fermented and dried in the sun. They are then sent to a central depot and dispatched in bulk to ...
Gold Coast. A new fish-canning industry which has been started at Osu.London. African students visit the Fire Brigade H.Q. and see a fire display.
'Gold Coast government starts Canning Factory' Women cleaning ...
'Nigeria - Akeredolu the Woodcarver' Mr Akeredolu carving human figures using thorn tree wood. Small heads and models. Larger heads from woodblocks.
'Fiji' A general survey of the islands and industry. AV of ...
Coverage of the Colonial Exhibition in Oxford Street held during Colonial Month in the summer of 1949 to 'spread the spirit of co-operation and mutual understanding'.
A suited black man and woman within London point at a banner that ...
The beauty of Southern Rhodesia, its expanding agricultural and industrial development and the opportunities it offers for pioneers of today; the history, geography and social life of the inhabitants.
A survey of various community development projects, connected with housing, health, irrigation and transport organised by individual villages with the help of the District Officer.
A title introduces the film as 'The Story of how the ...
Anthony Eden's Empire tour. The London County Council elections. Food rationing. The Young Conservatives' conference at Filey including a visit to Butlin's. Extract from Churchill's speech at the M.I.T. praising the deterrent powers of the ...
DOCUMENTARY. A maternity hospital is built by natives in the Eastern Nigerian village of Umana.
Rl.1 Opening shots of the natives of the village attending open-air school and learning to read. In his office, the Udi district ...
A diamond field is discovered in South Africa. How one man attempts to enforce law and order during the working of it. A British contribution to the Western genre.
Ladymead is a Georgian Mansion in which four generations of women have lived while their husbands are away at war. In each case the husband returns home expecting his wife to be unchanged.
Kenya. A District Development Team tackles disease, bad farming methods and ignorance.
Reel 1: (Can marking: Bombay Yacht Club, Willingdon, Ratnagiri, Susie Buchan) (Colour, US 1944 date mark) Murray by Indian beach. Served beer by waiter at sports club, around pool. English woman. Kabbadi wrestling. (US 1941 date mark) Close-ups of ...
'When Mr. Creech Jonmes, Secretary of State for the Colonies, cut a symbolic turf on the site of the new University College in Nigeria, a short film was made of the event' (Colonial Cinema, September 1949, 51).
Cinemagazine chronicling the change and progress taking place in the Gold Coast.
"Consists of the following items:- 'Number, Please!' The Story of the training of Telephone operators at the Central Telephone Exchange in Accra. ...
Cinemagazine chronicling the change and progress taking place in the Gold Coast.
"Consists of the following items:- Governor meets Chiefs at Dodowah: the first meeting of the Governor with the Joint Provincial Council of Chiefs ...
The work of the Central Hospital, Elat, Cameroun, especially its care for lepers. The case of Moses Mvondo is followed from his father leaving him at the hospital to his cure three years later.
Commander Kearans receives gifts from the Governor.
